A former News of the World reporter has come forward with stories of her time at the disgraced tabloid.One being that she was ordered to catch Mike Tyson in a cocaine orgy. [HR]

Girl power! Three young American women took the top prizes at Google's first-ever science fair, beating 7,500 other contestants from 91 countries. [NYT]

This year's World Cup oracle is Nelly, an adorable baby elephant. [DerSpeigel]

Be in a movie. In Inside, Emmy Rossum wakes up in a locked room with no way to communicate with the outside world except a laptop, which she uses to communicate with her social network—played by real users of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. [Guardian]

Booze and smokes are running out in Minnesota due to the government shutdown. [MinnesotaStarTribune]